The FBI and Anchorage Police Division revealed new particulars within the case towards Esteban Santiago Ruiz, who’s accused of capturing and killing 5 individuals and wounding others at a Fort Lauderdale, Florida airport on Friday.

Santiago Ruiz was recognized to each businesses previous to the capturing at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Worldwide Airport. In November, Santiago Ruiz walked in to the Anchorage FBI workplace to report that a U.S. intelligence company was controlling his thoughts, in accordance with FBI particular agent in cost Marlin Ritzman.

“Santiago was having terroristic ideas and believed he was being influenced by ISIS,” APD Chief Chris Tolley added individually.

Ritzman famous that Santiago Ruiz appeared agitated and incoherent through the interplay however said he didn’t want to hurt anybody. Officers took him to an Anchorage medical facility for a psychological well being analysis.

In the course of the interview, Santiago Ruiz had a loaded journal with him contained in the FBI workplace, and police discovered a gun in his car, alongside together with his toddler daughter. The woman’s mom was contacted to take the kid, in response to Ritzman.

Following his analysis, the FBI closed its case into Santiago Ruiz’s claims and he was launched.

“I need to be clear, throughout our investigation, we discovered no recognized ties to terrorism,” Ritzman stated on the press convention. “He had damaged no legal guidelines when he got here into our workplace making disjointed feedback about thoughts management.”

Esteban Santiago Ruiz. Supply: Regulation enforcement sources

When requested if Santiago Ruiz ought to have been allowed a weapon following what the FBI described as a psychological well being disaster, U.S. Lawyer for Alaska Karen Loeffler defined that to ensure that somebody to be banned from having a gun underneath U.S. legal guidelines, they have to be adjudicated mentally sick, which she referred to as a “troublesome normal.” She stated beneath federal regulation, Santiago Ruiz wouldn’t have been prohibited from possessing a gun.

Ritzman said that the FBI didn’t consider Santiago Ruiz was working with anybody else in connection to the capturing. Tolley stated APD likewise believed that the suspect was not working with anybody in Anchorage and didn’t pose a menace to Anchorage residents.

“I want to stress that time,” Ritzman added. “Our group right here in Anchorage isn’t dealing with any recognized menace in reference to Esteban Santiago.”

Tolley stated APD was cooperating with federal, state and native officers within the investigation. Two searches have been carried out in Anchorage, in response to Ritzman, together with a number of interviews with Santiago Ruiz’s contacts.

Tolley introduced an overview of earlier interactions between APD and Santiago Ruiz:

Jan. eleven, 2016 – APD responded to a report of a bodily disturbance, which resulted in Santiago Ruiz’s arrest. He…